Jonathan Chu
@whoisjonchu
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Researching how opinion, psychology, norms & identity affect the domestic politics of democracy & war @LKYSch @NUSingapore.
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Joined December 2009
🚨My new research theorizes and demonstrates a novel mechanism to understand how international organizations legitimize foreign policy: by sending social cues. Please read more in the Open Access online version here! (will write a thread later. ).
New Cambridge Element Social Cues by @whoisjonchu out now! Read Open Access at .#cambridgeelements #openaccess #politics
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RT @The_JOP: Announcement: Please note that the JOP will be on hiatus from August 4 to August 24. During this period, we will not be accept….
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Excited to see this one out. The “Rally for Democracy” concept will be useful for IR scholars.
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!. A Rally for Democracy? #Authoritarian #Resurgence, #Ukraine, & #Global #Democratic #Allegiance. By @robertofoa & Xavier Romero-Vidal.
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The ad provides information about our priorities. I’m on the search committee and happy to answer your remaining questions! I’ll also be at APSA. 3/3.
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These are research track positions, so a key criteria will be your trajectory to become a leading & independent scholar in your field, publishing in quality journals. But as a policy school, we also value policy/public relevance and experience 2/3.
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We are hiring multiple TT Assistant Professors in Int’l Security (broadly defined but we take “international” seriously), Public Administration (broadly), and Public Policy (esp. Technology). See the ad for key information: 1/3.
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RT @YouGovAmerica: Which groups are more likely to see the American Dream as attainable for them personally? .% who say it is very or somew….
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Kanti Bajpai is the senior faculty who most closely shepherded me through the first years of my first TT job at LKYSPP. And what a career he has had, from being an advocate for nonproliferation to advancing research on nontraditional security. We'll miss him dearly.
Kanti Bajpai has retired from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. We made him Emeritus Professor. And a farewell video: .
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Excited for our new colleague! Follow Dean esp. for work on political economy & Southeast Asia!.
I’ve started a new position as an Assistant Professor at @LKYSch @NUSingapore. Thank you @sgSMU for 4.5 wonderful years! Leaving with many good memories and excited for this new chapter in my life.
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RT @EddySFYeung: Yumin (@hsuyumin) and I are excited to share our new paper at @The_JOP! In this paper, we theorize and test the logic of “….
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This prize winning research documents China's hidden market economy during Mao's socialist reforms, and how such a market laid the foundations for China's economy to take off in the modern era.
Congratulations to @adamkfrost (of @CBScph) , and @zeren_li (of @LKYSch @NUSingapore) who have been awarded the 2024 Gordon White Prize for their article "Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC” (OA).
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New research on China's influence in regional organizations like ASEAN:.
My first publication is now officially online at the BJPS!. I study how China uses development finance to cultivate influence in regional organizations, and show important variation by funding and recipient entities. 🧵 (1/4). Link:
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RT @Lingling_Wei: Within the Chinese system, the importance of trade to jobs is no secret. In 2020, then-Premier Li Keqiang noted that “the….
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Plunging trade across the Pacific is leading to production halts and threatening job instability for millions of Chinese.
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How can winning a war not be enough? E.g. Japanese domestic backlash to winning the Russo Japanese war. Read the answer in this new AJPS publication.
I’m excited to share that our new paper, coauthored with @thescottwolford, is now out in Early View in @AJPS_Editor!. Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics. (Deleted the last post to fix a typo).
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This paper has critical implications for the competitiveness of the US in global pharma, given democratic erosion.
My paper, "The Political Economy of Compulsory Licensing: Democracy and Regulatory Threat in Public Health," has been accepted at Public Choice! It shows why foreign drug companies voluntarily licensed their AIDS patents in democracies during the AIDS crisis. 1/N
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Therefore: it's important to make sure people who are going through a tough time know that they aren't alone and they have a community of shared struggle.
Excited to share my paper on unemployment and suicide with @pescosol. Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed.
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One of key findings: "when we replicate work linking refugees to inter- and intrastate conflict, our findings do not substantiate Salehyan and Gleditsch’s (2006) seminal research associating refugees to civil war diffusion.".
From our new issue: "The Causes and Consequences of Refugee Flows: A Contemporary Reanalysis" by Andrew Shaver (@AndrewCShaver) et al. #APSRNewIssue
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The "swing state" analogy implies that geopolitics = a US election where the Winner Takes All in exec leadership. IMO, this paradigm is dangerous as much as it is inaccurate (eg Johnston's work on int'l orderS). Swing state also = battleground state and that sounds ominous. .
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RT @NeilDotObrien: WOW: @JonHaidt got info from inside TikTok admitting how they target kids: ."The product in itself has baked into it com….
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